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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Listen, we're not making this up for kicks and thrills or to start drama for fun. Pretty much no one is getting in who isn't a minority or an athlete or a big donor's kid. 
OR feel free to keep paying the $55K per year and keep your head in the sand until your kid's senior year and you see this play out with your own kid. That's honestly probably the best approach. [/quote]

What you don’t get is that I’m paying the $55k for a fantastic, rigorous education with engaged teachers and peers that is way, way beyond what my kid would get at Jackson-Reed or Whitman.  I’m not trying to buy college admission and know that my kid has been well-prepared to do well at whatever college they end up.[/quote]

Why do you assume that this is not happening at Whitman and JR? My kid is in JR and my older graduated Ivy League kid went to Walls. We've had a great experience at both![/quote]

We know people at Jackson Reed and they’re trying to leave! There’s violence at school and drugs at school and after the Sidwell game they jumped kids from Sidwell? I don’t want my kid in that atmosphere that would never happen at a school sporting event ar any of the private schools we’ve ever played.[/quote]

Don't choke yourself clutching on those pearls.[/quote]

Nope not clutching pearls - being honest. If you can afford to send to private and you keep your kids enrolled in schools where your kids don’t feel 100 percent safe then I think you are being selfish. If you can’t afford private then that is different but they do offer financial aid. Yes it is true there are drugs at school and also violence. Have personally heard of incidents. My private school kid never worried about getting jumped in the bathroom or even jumped after a sporting event against other private schools and I would not want them to. Also at our school teachers are in the bathrooms so there are no drugs in there. Kids are not doing drugs at school. So you can brag all you want about public school and insult private kids’ college acceptances but the truth is we are not sending them to private for the college acceptances. The most important foundations of learning have already happened - speech, writing, and ability to speak and share in class - small 8-10 classes. [/quote]

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